Song of the Spring Pony (1985)
• March 22nd, 1985 • 1h 48min
Drama
Overview
Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an infant. Bunzo loves Keiji so much that he does every thing to protect his grandson. Sonoda Keiko, a new young teacher comes to the school when a new term starts. She wants Keiji to go back to school. After two years absence from school, Keiji tries to attend the class but he cannot continue. All pupils hold an exhibition of Keiji’s paintings in the village shrine to make him happy. He is very pleased and gives his paintings to them and to Keiko, he gives a painting entitled "Spring Pony". When this picture is awarded a prize in the National Friendship Painting Compettition, it is like a new beginning for Keiji’s family.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Fighting Seabees
Released on: 1944-01-27
Drama, Action, War
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work...
Wake in Fright
Released on: 1971-07-21
Drama, Thriller
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a b...
Kabei: Our Mother
Released on: 2008-01-26
Family, Drama
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shige...
To Sir, with Love
Released on: 1967-06-14
Drama
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his un...
The Idiot
Released on: 1951-05-23
Drama, Romance
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a vo...
Paradise Alley
Released on: 1978-09-22
Action, Drama
Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other...
Jude
Released on: 1996-02-06
Drama, Romance
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar back...
Pygmalion
Released on: 1938-10-06
Comedy, Drama, Romance
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Dooli...
Iron and Silk
Released on: 1991-02-15
Drama, Comedy
Iron and Silk is a 1990 movie based on the eponymous book by American writer Mark Salzman. It detail...
Foxfire
Released on: 1996-08-23
Action, Drama, Thriller
The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexuall...
Crisálida
Released on: 2016-09-16
Drama, Fantasy
Ernesto, a biologist who lives with his mother, spends his days teaching at the university and waiti...
The Ron Clark Story
Released on: 2006-08-13
TV Movie, Drama
Passionate and innovative teacher Ron Clark leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's to...
Good Morning
Released on: 1959-05-12
Comedy, Family, Drama
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergeneration...
Kandahar
Released on: 2001-05-11
Drama
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she ...
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Released on: 2009-06-08
Drama, Family
A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into h...
West of Zanzibar
Released on: 1928-11-24
Drama, Thriller, Mystery
A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired wit...
Election
Released on: 1999-04-23
Comedy, Drama
Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister ha...
Badland
Released on: 2007-11-30
Drama
Jerry (Jamie Draven) was an idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he was later dep...
Honey
Released on: 2003-12-05
Music, Drama, Romance
Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hi...